Seven focus areas, one community-first method.

Partner: UN Women · Years: 2023

GBV response training, awareness raising, and construction of a Safe House / Centre of Influence for survivor referral and support.

Partner: Bread for the World (BFTW) · Years: 2023–2025 (current)

CDA's current flagship program, shifting its coffee work from a charity model to a social business — green-bean processing, roast-and-ground retail coffee, and continued CBO strengthening.

Partner: UNDP · Years: 2022–2023

Training and referral pathways addressing gender-based violence and sorcery-accusation-related violence (SARV).

Partner: Digicel Foundation · Years: 2021

Seed funding toward the Simbu Education Resource Centre (SERC), now under construction.

Partner: UN Women · Years: 2020, 2022–2023

Gender-rights training, social action analysis and advocacy on gender-based issues.

Partner: UNDP-GEF · Years: 2017–2020

Climate change mitigation delivered under the UNDP Global Environment Facility.

Partner: The Christensen Fund, USA · Years: 2015–2017

Supported cultural preservation and revival activity within Simbu communities.

Partner: NZ MFAT / SFML · Years: 2015–2017

Combined climate-change mitigation with water, sanitation and hygiene delivery.

Partner: World Bank / PNG Government · Years: 2014–2019

The largest coffee-industry support project in Gumine and neighbouring districts — reached over 3,000 smallholder farmers with pulpers, nurseries and three wet mills.

Partner: CARE International (Australia) · Years: 2011–2014

Delivered 45 ward development plans, three consolidated LLG plans and a Gumine District political assessment, in collaboration with ANU and DFAT.

Partner: Law & Justice Sector Support (CJLU) · Years: 2009–2013

Peacebuilding and mediation training that underpinned CDA's later success brokering tribal peace agreements.

Partner: Oxfam International · Years: 2009–2015

An eight-year program spanning food production, small livestock, inland fishing, beekeeping and coffee-based income generation.

Partner: Government of New Zealand · Years: 2009–2013

Water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure delivered to rural Gumine communities.

Partner: Government of New Zealand · Years: 2009–2013

Facilitated major community peace agreements that ended long-running tribal conflicts across Gumine District.

Partner: National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) · Years: 2009–2012, 2017–2018

Introduced climate-resilient crops — early-maturing sweet potato, drought-resistant cassava — and famine-food cultivation.

Partner: Bread for the World, Germany · Years: 2009–2022

CDA's longest-running program — funded three coffee wet mills, CBO strengthening, and early planning for a community development institute.

Partner: Global Green Grant, USA · Years: 2008–2009

Continuation of conservation and environmental-awareness work across Gumine communities.

Partner: NGO Promotional Program / Horizon 3000 · Years: 2008–2013

Strengthened CDA's own governance, internal systems and staff capacity as an organisation.

Partner: German Service Development, Service Horizon 3000, Austria · Years: 2005–2007

CDA's founding program — early community organising and mobilisation training that shaped how CDA still enters and empowers rural communities today.

Partner: New England BioLabs & Foundation, USA · Years: 2005–2008

Worked with landowners to identify and conserve water sources, and ran community awareness on environmental protection.